#CHAPTER 108: The Invitation

MAEVE POV My stomach twisted and churned as I stood, paralyzed, in the company of the one man I never wanted to see for the rest of my life. The man whose cold and unforgiving eyes haunted my dreams and whose falsely sweet voice made my skin crawl. Why…? Why is my father here? The last time I saw him was the day Sarah was taken away. The same day he so kindly reminded me never to tell anyone the truth about who I was. The truth that Xaden found out one day later during our visit with the psychic Orenda Gorre. Oh no… Father knows. He knows, and he’s going to take me away… Father took a step towards me, and my heart plummeted. Running on pure survival instinct, my hand flew out and grabbed onto the closest object I could reach—it might have been Xaden’s arm or a lamp… to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure. I just needed something, anything to hold onto in my desperate haste to put as much space between us as possible. Because he was coming closer. And close